Westray Airport

Westray Airport
IATA: WRY ICAO: EGEW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Orkney Islands Council
Location	Aikerness, Orkney, Scotland
Elevation  AMSL	29 ft / 9 m
Coordinates	59°21′01″N002°57′00″W / 59.35028°N 2.95000°W / 59.35028; -2.95000
Website	orkney.com
Map
EGEW Location in Orkney Show map of Orkney Islands EGEW EGEW (the United Kingdom) Show map of the United Kingdom
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 291 955 Grass 09/27 527 1,729 Graded hardcore 13/31 421 1,381 Grass
Sources: UK AIP at NATS [1]

Westray Airport( IATA : WRY, ICAO : EGEW) is an airport at Aikerness, on Westray in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Westray Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P539) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Orkney Islands Council). It is also the start point for the European teams of the Greenland Air Trophy. The aerodrome is not licensed for night use. ^[2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Loganair	Kirkwall, Papa Westray

Trivia

• Westray Airport is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service to Papa Westray Airport. The distance is 2.8 km (1.7 mi) and the scheduled flight time, including taxiing, is two minutes. ^[3]
• It was previously known for having the shortest commercial runway in the world with runway 01/19 having a declared LDA distance of just 234 m. However, this runway is no longer in use. ^[4]

References

1. Westray – EGEW
2. Civil Aviation Authority Aerodrome Ordinary Licences
3. Westray and Papa Westray Getting here
4. "nats-uk.ead-it.com/" (PDF).

External links

Media related to Westray Airfield at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website